New York Times gets a similar award for excellence in legal reporting.

A federal appeals court in Atlanta today turned down a request by Terri Schiavo’s parents for an emergency review of a decision issued before dawn in which a divided three-judge panel of the court refused to order Ms. Schiavo’s feeding tube to be reinserted.

The court did not immediately offer an explanation for its 10-2 decision, and the parents, Robert and Mary Schindler, had earlier said they would take the matter to the Supreme Court.

[Update: The NYTimes story has been corrected to remove the 10-2 reference.]